Provincial EPI Officer

PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health. Learn more at www.path.org

PATH’s Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against 15 different diseases. Our focus is on vaccines to address the leading diseases that claim children’s lives worldwide: pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malaria; as well as other global health priorities, such as polio and meningitis.

PATH is seeking a Provincial EPI Officer for the Strengthening the Vaccine-Derived Polio Outbreak Response in the DRC project, operating in Tanganyika and Haut-Lomami provinces and funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The EPI Officer will be responsible for driving forward improvement of the quality of supplementary immunization activities (SIA) for six months of the outbreak response by providing technical oversight to the provincial Programme Elargi de Vaccination (PEV)-Comite des Operations d’Urgence Polio (COUP) to rapidly improve the cVDPV2 outbreak response.

Responsibilities will include:

Provide technical assistance to the PEV-COUP in Haut-Lomami to rapidly improve the quality of outbreak response, according to GPEI quality indicators, and strengthen polio surveillance.

Improve supervision of SIA activities by working with PEV-COUP to increase number of supervisors, implement IT tools to improve monitoring of vaccinators and supervisors’ activities, and/or potentially implement performance-based financing.

Coordinate with provincial PEV-COUP to implement any short vaccination intensification (mop up) in specific areas based on SIA quality results.

Based on available mapping and surveillance data, coordinate with provincial and health zone PEV staff to define and implement strategies to reach targeted (previously unreached) areas of health zones in Haut-Lomami.

Work with provincial PEV-COUP supply chain leads to ensure that sufficient vaccines are made available in health zones for SIA activities.

Provide support to ensure the accurate reporting of immunization performance data reporting from health zones in Haut-Lomami to provincial-level.

Participate in SIA coordination meetings lead by the Ministry of Health.

Provide support to and oversee Novel-T’s work in Haut-Lomami on potential integration of AVADAR/E-SURV application into the EPI surveillance system.

Provincial EPI Officer

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PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health. Learn more at www.path.org

PATH’s Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against 15 different diseases. Our focus is on vaccines to address the leading diseases that claim children’s lives worldwide: pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malaria; as well as other global health priorities, such as polio and meningitis.

PATH is seeking a Provincial EPI Officer for the Strengthening the Vaccine-Derived Polio Outbreak Response in the DRC project, operating in Tanganyika and Haut-Lomami provinces and funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The EPI Officer will be responsible for driving forward improvement of the quality of supplementary immunization activities (SIA) for six months of the outbreak response by providing technical oversight to the provincial Programme Elargi de Vaccination (PEV)-Comite des Operations d’Urgence Polio (COUP) to rapidly improve the cVDPV2 outbreak response.

Responsibilities will include:

Provide technical assistance to the PEV-COUP in Haut-Lomami to rapidly improve the quality of outbreak response, according to GPEI quality indicators, and strengthen polio surveillance.

Improve supervision of SIA activities by working with PEV-COUP to increase number of supervisors, implement IT tools to improve monitoring of vaccinators and supervisors’ activities, and/or potentially implement performance-based financing.

Coordinate with provincial PEV-COUP to implement any short vaccination intensification (mop up) in specific areas based on SIA quality results.

Based on available mapping and surveillance data, coordinate with provincial and health zone PEV staff to define and implement strategies to reach targeted (previously unreached) areas of health zones in Haut-Lomami.

Work with provincial PEV-COUP supply chain leads to ensure that sufficient vaccines are made available in health zones for SIA activities.

Provide support to ensure the accurate reporting of immunization performance data reporting from health zones in Haut-Lomami to provincial-level.

Participate in SIA coordination meetings lead by the Ministry of Health.

Provide support to and oversee Novel-T’s work in Haut-Lomami on potential integration of AVADAR/E-SURV application into the EPI surveillance system.